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It’s become obvious that opinions regarding humans’ impact on the climate often differ depending on one’s political party. While some conservatives have openly decided to leave climate denial behind, the gap between Republicans and Democrats on this issue is huge—larger than some of the most historically divisive debates.

New research from Lawrence Hamilton of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire shows that there is a larger gap between liberals and conservatives on climate change than abortion, gun control, the death penalty and evolution.

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“I didn’t realize it would be at the level of division that it was,” Hamilton told Mother Jones.

While the polled Democrats and Republicans both largely say they trust scientists as a source of environmental information—83 and 63 percent, respectively—just 48 percent of Republicans say they believe humans are contributing to climate change. The percentage among polled Democrats remained the same on both questions.

Just 28 percent of Tea Party members said they trust scientists on the environment, and even fewer—23 percent—say humans are contributing to global warming.

Hamilton didn’t venture far from his university to conduct the poll. It included nearly 600 New Hampshire residents. While he concedes that conservatives elsewhere might have different opinions, he would’t expect a large contrast if his team had polled people in the other 49 states.

“In general, New Hampshire is not drastically unrepresentative,” he said. “[I] would expect similar gaps to show up [around the nation].”

Pathetic-there was NO “Climate Gate” every investigation cleared the the matter! Deniers created it sustained it and try to keep the zombie walkiing to this day.Time to look at the overwhelming facts like a rational being or just shut up!

Ken

Need not to reply to non-issue. LIGHTEN UP

Ken

Drink all the kool-aid if you prefer. Myself will stand with truth and God.

Steve Kellmeyer

You’ll be dead, honey. The conservatives – having refused to abort their children – will have taken over the world and be happily drinking margaritas on the beach.

That’s the basic difference between conservatives and liberals – conservatives are happy, liberals are gloomy.

http://CoSy.com/ Bob Armstrong

Studies have also shown that the more quantitatively educated one is the more likely they are to see thru this profound statist stupidity . Hopefully as its falsehood becomes irrefutable , more will recognize the falsehood of the entire statist notion of a superior political class .

Where did you get your figures that the land, air, and especially sea temperature have only gone up 0.8%? From the fossil fuel industries? Don’t believe everything you read. If air temps have gone up less than expected in the last decade, it is probably due to geoengineering, which is doing a lot more harm than good, spraying toxic metals like aluminum (which causes Alzheimers) and barium to reflect sunlight back to space. These metals are toxic to humans, animals and plants, decreasing crops and killing trees.

Learn some physics . This is a mass delusion even stupider than traditional marxism because it is quantitatively false .

To me , even beyond that , is the absurd irony of demonizing the very molecule which , along with H2O , is the building block of all green ( and therefore all ) life itself .

Steve Kellmeyer

Liberals are no good at math.

bonnielou

The fossil fuel corps (and their offspring – petrochemical, pharmaceutical, plastics, automobile, etc) want to keep drilling, fracking and burning, and making massive profits from pushing their products. They largely control the mass media and thereby popular opinion and have convinced half the population that global warming is not happening, so they won’t be forced to stop producing greenhouse gases. The last couple of years of record snowstorms on the US east coast, which facilitated the delusion that the earth is actually getting colder (!) were probably artificially created by geoengineering, producing the massive drought in California, (where most of US food is grown), as a side effect. Mother(earth)frackers!

Ken

You lady are not living in reality. Oh! your California drought, Water turned off to save the smelt fish, you and your ilk care nothing about people. Fracking has been around for 60 years, with No problems, until your sick environmentalist got involved. Global Warming is a Hoax build upon lies after lies, to promote their agenda, nothing More. God will be our Judge, in who is telling the Truth.